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Born: Janet Haradon, May 21, 1944, Storm Lake, Iowa
Education: Jefferson High School, Independence, Iowa, Class of 1962
Married: Bill Dailey

Early Career: Attended secretarial school in Omaha, Nebraska. Worked with construction and land developer Bill Dailey for 10 years before "retiring" to travel around the country.

Current Residence: The Daileys have lived in the "live music capital of the world," Branson, Missouri since 1980. In addition to managing Janet's writing career, Bill promotes and produces shows at the Americana Theatre in Branson, Mo.

EARLY WRITING CAREER

Janet wrote her first novel, "No Quarter Asked" in 1974 after her husband, Bill, urged her to back up her claim that she could write a better romance novel than the ones she had read. The book was accepted by Harlequin, making her the category romance giant's first American author. Her 57 novels for Harlequin included one written in every state of the Union, and later became known as "The Janet Dailey Americana Series."

The Daileys were instrumental in forming the Silhouette romance fiction line, for which Janet wrote 12 more titles before entering the mass market field in 1979 with "Touch the Wind," which marked her debut on the New York Times best seller list, where each new title has continued to appear.

In 1984, Janet entered the mainstream hard cover market with "Silver Wings, Santiago Blue." Currently there are over 325 million copies of her novels in print throughout the world, with translations in 19 languages, in 98 countries.

LATEST BESTSELLERS

In hardcover, Shifting Calder Wind spent four weeks on the extended New York Times bestseller list.
In mass market, Green Calder Grass was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller for six weeks.
Janet Dailey's Scrooge Wore Spurs was a New York Times bestseller for five weeks, a USA Today bestseller for five weeks, and a Publishers Weekly bestseller for two weeks.
A Capital Holiday was a New York Times bestseller for six weeks (three at #10), and a USA Today bestseller for five weeks.
In mass market and hardcover, Calder Pride was a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today national bestseller

KENSINGTON PUBLISHING ACQUIRES FOUR NEW NOVELS BY JANET DAILEY IN A SEVEN-FIGURE DEAL

Central to the acquisition is Dailey’s agreement to write two more Calder novels for Kensington. The Calder books, which to date have followed members of the Montana ranching family in five best-selling novels - THE CALDER SKY, THIS CALDER RANGE, STANDS A CALDER MAN, CALDER BORN, CALDER BRED, and CALDER PRIDE – are among the best known of Dailey’s works.

The deal was negotiated by Editorial Director Kate Duffy with Dailey’s long-time agent, Richard Curtis, president of Richard Curtis Associates. The agreement calls for two full length Calder novels and two holiday novels, the first of which A CAPITAL HOLIDAY, will be published as a mass market original by Kensington Zebra books, imprint in October 2001. The first of the Calder books, GREEN CALDER GRASS, will be published in hardcover by Kensington books in July 2002.

“It’s an interesting coincidence,” says Duffy, who also comments, “I have always been a major Janet Dailey fan and, as are many of her readers, I’m particularly passionate about the Calder books, now at last, I get to be the first to read them.”